ISBN-13: 978-1-60364-025-1
Suggested retail: $19.95
6" x 9" softcover, 364 pages
Contains three appendices with various forms and adoption resources
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com, The Digital Bookshop, and fine booksellers everywhere
Families don’t just happen—they are made.
And this is nowhere more evident than in adoptive families. Adoption can be a joyous, frustrating, uplifting, disheartening, frightening and exhilirating experience. Here, one adoptive mother tells the story of how she and her husband—and friends—formed their beautiful family.
Everything In Its Own Time speaks to those who long for children but do not have them, for whatever reason, and reminds us all that, no matter how we strive, everything happens in its own time.
What others say...
As our culture explores new and more inclusive forms of connection, along come the Falco's. Rebecca and John's commitment to expanding the idea of family began with their marriage vows and now includes seven different birth families with all the attendant drama, heartbreak and profound joy. Read this book to be moved, to be inspired, to witness an astonishing open-heartedness that has the power to be contagious.
Martha Abshire Simmons,
Founding Director of the Duke University Women's Center
Everything In Its Own Time is a story of adoption, one woman's journey to answer her call to be a mother and to have a family. Rebecca Falco chronicles her experience creating a family through adoption and provides first hand knowledge of the complex process to adopt and the varied forms it can take. "Everything in its own time" is so much more than a memoir about adoption. It is about recovery, from trauma and the pain of infertility. It is about exploration, allowing life to unfold and braving the unknown paths ahead. It is about mothering, in the deepest, most pure sense of the word. It is a love story about a marriage, two people who open their lives and hearts to five beautiful, unique children. "Everything in its own time" will make you believe in open adoption and in the wisdom of the women who chose Rebecca and John to parent their children.
Sonya Green, adoptive parent
Everything In Its Own Time is an honest reflection of one family's quest to complete itself. Part memoir, raw and reflective; part guidebook for potential adoptive parents and birth parents alike; part tale of courage, love, divinity and direction.
Ms. Falco does not leave any stone unturned in her detailed description of their family-forming odyssey. Humorous, gut-wrenching and informative. In context, the whole Falco family makes perfect sense.
Leslie Foge, MA, MFT
Adoption specialist and Co-Author of
The Third Choice: A Woman's guide for placing a Child for Adoption (1st and 2nd Editions)
